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Jack Lambert is a Actor American born on 13 april 1920 at Yonkers (USA)
Jack Lambert (April 13, 1920 – February 18, 2002) was an American character actor born in Yonkers, New York, who specialized in playing movie tough guys and heavies. He is best known for playing the psychotic cat-loving, iron-hooked Steve "the Claw" Michael in Dick Tracy's Dilemma.
Following a spell on Broadway, Lambert moved to Hollywood and began working in films in 1942. He was a familiar figure in Westerns and crime dramas after World War II, in such movies as Kiss Me Deadly, Vera Cruz, The Killers, Bend of the River, How the West Was Won and The Enforcer.
Lambert also appeared in many television series of the 1950s and 1960s, such as Rod Cameron's State Trooper, Gunsmoke (season 4, episode 35, 1959), Have Gun - Will Travel, Sugarfoot, Daniel Boone, Wagon Train, Bonanza, Get Smart' and "Andy Griffith".
From 1959 to 1960, he was a regular cast member (as Joshua Walcek, sometimes called "Joshua MacGregor"), in 23 of the 42 episodes of Darren McGavin's NBC western series, Riverboat.
He is often confused with Jack Lambert, a British character actor, as well as the former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Jack Lambert.
À la télévision, il participe à une cinquante de séries (dont plusieurs bien connues dans le genre du western), entre 1951 et 1970, ainsi qu'à un téléfilm diffusé en 1967.
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Jack Lambert
Birth name Jack Lambert
Nationality USA
Birth 13 april 1920 at Yonkers (USA)
Death 18 february 2002 (at 81 years) at Carmel-by-the-Sea (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 13 april 1920 at Yonkers (USA)
Death 18 february 2002 (at 81 years) at Carmel-by-the-Sea (USA)
Following a spell on Broadway, Lambert moved to Hollywood and began working in films in 1942. He was a familiar figure in Westerns and crime dramas after World War II, in such movies as Kiss Me Deadly, Vera Cruz, The Killers, Bend of the River, How the West Was Won and The Enforcer.
Lambert also appeared in many television series of the 1950s and 1960s, such as Rod Cameron's State Trooper, Gunsmoke (season 4, episode 35, 1959), Have Gun - Will Travel, Sugarfoot, Daniel Boone, Wagon Train, Bonanza, Get Smart' and "Andy Griffith".
From 1959 to 1960, he was a regular cast member (as Joshua Walcek, sometimes called "Joshua MacGregor"), in 23 of the 42 episodes of Darren McGavin's NBC western series, Riverboat.
He is often confused with Jack Lambert, a British character actor, as well as the former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Jack Lambert.
Biography
Jack Lambert débute au théâtre à Broadway en 1940 et y joue dans deux pièces, la seconde en 1941. L'année suivante (1942), il fait sa première apparition au cinéma, où il se produit jusqu'en 1963, dans une soixantaine de films américains, dont bon nombre de films noirs et de westerns. Dans les seconds rôles de vilains qu'il interprète le plus souvent, son physique bien typé se remarque, comme dans le western Les Affameurs (en 1952, avec James Stewart), ou les films noirs Les Tueurs (en 1946, avec Burt Lancaster) et En quatrième vitesse (en 1955, avec Ralph Meeker).À la télévision, il participe à une cinquante de séries (dont plusieurs bien connues dans le genre du western), entre 1951 et 1970, ainsi qu'à un téléfilm diffusé en 1967.
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Winchester '73 (1967)
, 1h37Directed by Herschel Daugherty
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tom Tryon, John Saxon, Dan Duryea, John Drew Barrymore, Joan Blondell, John Dehner
Roles Scots
Rating55%
Le shérif Lin McAdam et son cousin Dakin participent à un concours de tir dont le premier prix est une carabine Winchester modèle 1873. Lin gagne, provoquant la colère de Dakin. Celui-ci dérobe la carabine et abat son oncle...
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
, 1h30Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Dracula films, Vampires in film
Actors Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Francis Matthews, Bud Tingwell, Peter Cushing, Suzan Farmer
Roles Brother Peter
Rating66%
A prologue replays the final scenes from Dracula, in which Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) destroys Dracula (Christopher Lee) by driving him into the sunlight. These scenes are accompanied by voice-over narration that describes how Van Helsing, a scholar of vampirism, was able to end Dracula's century-long reign of terror and destroy his cult; only the memory of Dracula's evil remains.
4 for Texas (1963)
, 1h50Directed by Robert Aldrich, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Victor Buono
Roles Monk
Rating54%
In 1870, a shipment of $100,000 being transported by stagecoach to Galveston, Texas, is the object of a tug-of-war in the desert between Zack Thomas (Frank Sinatra) and Joe Jarrett (Dean Martin), who first must stave off an outlaw band led by Matson (Charles Bronson).
How the West Was Won (1962)
, 2h35Directed by John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors James Stewart, Carroll Baker, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Carolyn Jones
Roles Gant Henchman (uncredited)
Rating70%
Zebulon Prescott (Karl Malden) and his family set out west for the frontier via the Erie Canal, the “west” at this time being the Illinois country. On the journey, they meet mountain man Linus Rawlings (James Stewart), who is traveling east to Pittsburgh to trade his furs. He and Zebulon's daughter Eve (Carroll Baker) are attracted to each other, but Linus is not ready to settle down.
The George Raft Story (1961)
, 1h46Directed by Joseph M. Newman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about television
Actors Ray Danton, Jayne Mansfield, Julie London, Barrie Chase, Frank Gorshin, Barbara Nichols
Roles Jerry Fitzpatrick
Rating57%
La vie romancée du célèbre acteur George Raft, qui fut parfois mêlé à des affaires de gangsters.
Francis of Assisi (1961)
, 1h45Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about religion
Actors Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman, Pedro Armendáriz, Eduard Franz, Cecil Kellaway
Roles Scefi
Rating63%
Francis Bernardone (Bradford Dillman) is the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, who gives up all his worldly goods to dedicate himself to God. Clare (Dolores Hart) is a young aristocratic woman who, according to the film, is so taken with St. Francis that she leaves her family and becomes a nun. By this time (1212 A.D.), St. Francis has a well-established reputation for his vows of poverty. The movie goes on to note miracles (such as the appearance of the stigmata on Francis's hands and feet) and other aspects of his life, up to and including his death on October 3, 1226. The funeral befitted a man loved by man and beast alike, and ended with the birds he loved doing a flyby.
Freckles (1960)
, 1h25Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Carol Christensen, Jack Lambert, Roy Barcroft, Lorna Thayer, Ken Curtis, John Eldredge
Roles Duncan
Rating55%
Handicapped by a missing hand since childhood, Freckles (Martin West) works for timber baron John McLean (Roy Barcroft). He rounds up a gang of lumber thieves headed by Duncan (Jack Lambert).
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
, 1h32Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Western
Actors Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Alan Marshal, Venetia Stevenson, David Nelson
Roles Tex, Bruhn's gang
Rating72%
Blaise Starrett (Robert Ryan) is a ruthless cattleman at odds with homesteaders in a small, bleak western town in Wyoming called Bitters. A feud develops between Starrett and a local farmer Hal Crane. The farmer's wife Helen (Tina Louise) offers to renew a love affair with Starrett if he promises not to kill Hal.
Alias Jesse James (1959)
, 1h32Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Films about families, Jesse James, Gangster films
Actors Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Will Wright, Wendell Corey, Jim Davis, Mary Young
Roles Snake Brice (uncredited)
Rating63%
Milford Farnsworth (Hope) is a bumbling insurance agent who unknowingly sells a life insurance policy to the outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey). Farnsworth is sent out West to protect the insurance company's investment by "protecting" James.
Machine-Gun Kelly (1958)
, 1h24Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Action, Historical, Crime
Actors Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot, Morey Amsterdam, Jack Lambert, Richard Devon, Frank DeKova
Roles Howard
Rating60%
George Kelly (Charles Bronson), dubbed "Machine Gun" by his partner in crime Flo Becker (Susan Cabot) because of his obsession with Thompson submachine guns, pulls off a bank robbery and eventually becomes Public Enemy #1. Discord grows among his inner circle, and Kelly, deathly afraid of being jailed or killed, is dominated and ridiculed by the tough-talking Flo.
Party Girl (1958)
, 1h39Directed by Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith, Claire Kelly
Roles Nick (uncredited)
Rating69%
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending Chicago mobsters in court. At a party for mob boss Rico Angelo, he meets chorus girl Vicki Gaye, who accepted $100 to attend the party and another $400 from another gangster, Louis Canetto, from his gambling winnings.
Son of Robin Hood (1958)
, 1h21Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors David Hedison, June Laverick, David Farrar, Marius Goring, Philip Friend, Delphi Lawrence
Roles Will Scarlett
Rating47%
The imposter son of Robin Hood gets locked up in the dungeon. His brother later gets locked up in the dungeon in the next cell. He calls out to him 'Robert, Robert' but he does not believe it his real brother saying that he lies in a foreign grave. He takes off a ring and ties it to some string and swings it to the next cell. When Robert sees the ring his brother tells him that it is the ring he gave him when he left for a foreign land that nobody else knows about and so he realizes that it really is his brother Jamie. He tells him that there is a plan to break him out of the dungeon.Then Jamie is taken to torture a forester Des Roches has captured. Jamie delays the torture until a guard interrupts with a blue cloak dropped by Deering Hood when she went to shoot the Hawk carrying a message from the traitor lady in the priory. Des Roches cries seize him but he uses the dagger given him to torture the forester and takes the guards sword. He engages in a sword fight managing to free the imprisoned forester. Together they escape and open the gate to the secret tunnel letting Little John, Deering and some of Robin Hood's allies into the castle of Des Roches. Jamie then goes back to fight Des Roches and kills him. Little John fights with the guards and manages to lower the drawbridge to let the rest of Robin Hoods men in and the castle is secured. Des Roches had won the support of many Lords and their Knights who are gathering for the coronation of the King in Winchester. But now without his leadership they can support the King at his coronation in place of Des Roches. Jamie declares his love for Deering and they kiss as acceptance of marriage. Jamie pardons Sylvia Des Roches' sister as she helped their cause to defeat Des Roches. everyone lives happily ever after.
The Little Hut (1957)
, 1h30Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on Robinson Crusoe, Films based on plays
Actors Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, David Niven, Finlay Currie, Walter Chiari, Jack Lambert
Roles Capt. MacWalt
Rating56%
Sir Philip Ashlow (Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Susan Ashlow (Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island.
Chicago Confidential (1957)
Directed by Sidney Salkow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Brian Keith, Beverly Garland, Dick Foran, Douglas Kennedy, Paul Langton, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Roles Smitty (uncredited)
Rating60%
Backlash (1956)
, 1h20Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, John McIntire, William Campbell, Barton MacLane, Harry Morgan
Roles Benton
Rating65%
Jim Slater (Richard Widmark) meets Karyl Orton (Donna Reed) in Gila Valley, Arizona. She thinks that he is searching for a gold cache believed to hidden somewhere in the valley. When a man with a rifle starts shooting at him, Jim wonders if she can be trusted. After Jim kills his foe, he discovers the dead man was a deputy sheriff from Silver City. He takes the body there.